Chapter-3 Employment Service Center
- Employment Service Center: (1) The Government of Nepal shall, by a notification in the Nepal Gazette, establish an Employment Service Center in each Local Level, which shall act under the Local Level.
(2) The Ministry shall have the responsibility to give directive to, coordinate with and facilitate the functioning of the Employment Service Center, from the Federal level.
(3) Other matters relating to the operation of the Employment Service Center referred to in sub-section (1) shall be as prescribed.
- Application to be made: (1) An unemployed person who wants to be involved in the minimum employment pursuant to this Act may make an application, setting out his or her details and the skills, qualification or capacity that he or she has, to the concerned Employment Service Center in such a format and within such period as prescribed.
(2) Upon making necessary inquiry into the application received pursuant to sub-section (1), the Employment Service Center shall keep updated records by preparing the list of the persons who are actually unemployed.
(3) The Employment Service Center shall provide the updated records referred to in sub-section (2) to the Government of Nepal and concerned Provincial Government, as prescribed.
- To provide information: (1) If any person who has made an application to the Employment Service Center pursuant to Section 11 is involved in employment elsewhere through personal effort before being recommended for employment pursuant to Section 16 or is involved in self-employment or is no longer willing to participate in the employment or receive the unemployment support to be provided pursuant to this Act, he or she shall provide information thereof to the Employment Service Center as soon as possible.
(2) If any person provides information pursuant to sub-section (1), the Employment Service Center shall remove such a person’s name from the records of the list of the unemployed person.
- To keep details of employers: (1) The Employment Service Center shall update and maintain the list of the employers within its territory.
(2) For the purpose of updating the list pursuant to sub-section (1), the Employment Service Center may write to any governmental or non-governmental body or organization and institution, in addition to the Local Level, to provide such details as demanded to the employers within the concerned Local Level.
(3) If it is so written by the Employment Service Center pursuant to sub-section (2), all the bodies concerned shall provide the details of the employers under them or of the works being performed by them and the human resources needed for such works to the Employment Service Center.
(4) The Employment Service Center shall send the details of the employers referred to in this Section to the Ministry and the Provincial Government concerned.
(5) Other matters relating to the collection and updating of the details of the employers shall be as prescribed.
- To make demand for laborers: (1) An employer shall give a notice, setting out the number of such laborers, their qualification and the period, as needed for the employer for any work, to the Employment Service Center.
(2) An employer may demand through the Employment Service Center for such laborers as needed for the employer for any work at the local level.
(3) While making a demand for laborers pursuant to sub-sections (1) and (2), the employer shall write to the Employment Service Center, setting out the number of laborers, their qualification, capacity, skills and the nature of work, in such a format as prescribed.
- To provide employment information: The Employment Service Center shall provide information, relating to the availability of laborers required for the employers, and employment opportunity for the listed unemployed person, within its jurisdiction.
- To provide employment to the unemployed person : (1) After any employer has made a demand for laborers pursuant to Section 14, the Employment Service Center shall send the unemployed person listed pursuant to sub-section (1) of Section 11, on the basis of his or her qualification, skills and experience, to the concerned employer for employment.
(2) The employer of governmental or public sector shall employ the person sent for employment pursuant to sub-section (1) in the work suitable to his or her qualification and skills pursuant to the prevailing law, and the employer of private sector may employ him or her in the available work suitable to his or her qualification and skills. Such a person shall perform the work assigned by the employer.
(3) The rate of daily wages to be provided by the employer for employing him or her in the work pursuant to sub-section (2) shall be as prescribed by the Ministry.
(4) The Employment Service Center shall remove the person who fails to perform the work assigned by the employer pursuant to sub-section (2) from the list of the unemployed persons.